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    Green Fridge Invention Uses Almost No Electricity

    Nearly every household has a fridge that completely wastes at least 30 kwh of energy every month. Most of that energy is wasted every time you open the door. Cold air is heavier (warm air rises, remember?) so it falls out onto the floor every time you open your fridge, and warm air from outside […]

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    Not Your Fathers Mobile Home

    The owner purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing the landscape return to its natural state. It had been a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley.

    Then, the Rolling Huts were designed to be simple mobile structures able to roll into and set up on the site, yet to provide clearance for nature below each hut.

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    Simple Tech = Common Sense Kitchen Design

    At the other end of the design spectrum from the energy sucking gizmology that now pervades our lives; simple tech is quietly bringing back simplicity and sustainability as a worthwhile goal for industrial design. Here’s a good example; a low tech kitchen appliance that would go well beyond a simple energy star rating for efficiency. […]

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